High-Speed Autonomous Vessel May Be Zooming from Geneva and Zurich Soon for Only 17 Minutes of Travel

A Swiss Firm plans the development of high-speed transport by a HyperLoop system that allows faster travel than possible. The vehicle is designed with newer technologies that we can compare to what standard trains have now.

One of the key innovations is traveling in an enclosed tube at subsonic speeds of 745 miles an hour under the Swiss Alps.

More firms are investing in these technologies as the next wave, like the Concorde was for planes years ago.

Swift and Smooth Travel Through the New Hyperloop System

Swisspod from Monthey has unveiled what it calls a hyperloop system capable of carrying people faster, even cargo in a tube. Estimated time of travel from Geneva or Zurich will be in 17 minutes, or NYC to Washington D.C. in 30 minutes only, reported the Daily Mail.

The vessels will be fast compared to the standard travel time. This technology will allow speedier travel in Switzerland and the U.S., with a less carbon footprint than flying on a plane.

Denis Tudor, CEO and co-founder, said the firm hopes to commercialize this technology in five years. He added that they would apply the technology in the mini test site in nine months.

Tudor mentioned that if the propulsive unit is made successfully, the vehicle will reach speeds up to 620-745 miles per hour.

The company has not said that just how much grandiose a project would cost. If it carries ahead, the passenger ships would be able to automatically slow during tunnels deformations 'for an experience just as smooth as silk. The Swisspod is now testing its version on a smaller scale.

The hyperloop system is a mode of travel that sees development by several fires that fulfill the dream of going to places so quickly and in almost no time.

New Innovations on the Swisspod's Features

In 1910, Robert Goddard, an American engineer, proposed the idea, but nothing happened until 2013, cited BBC. Interest in the systems surged after the release of a white paper by Elon Musk, who fostered the SpaceX project.

The train cars are called high-speed autonomous vessels that Swisspod will make. Driving the vessels forward is a linear induction motor capable of high speed, noted Linear Motion Tips.

These exotic motors will create motion but only in a straight line, unlike wheels that rotate.

It also employs the Magnetic Levitation of Maglev, which uses superconducting tech to travel on a magnetic field with no friction.

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) remarked that the power source for the vehicle would not be placed on the track to be energy efficient. The source will be placed in the pods instead. Linear induction motors will be placed in the vessels for them to run swiftly.

A mini version of the final system, about 130 feet in diameter, is based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Using a large vacuum tube will check if the induction motor moves the vessel too.

Mario Paolone of EPFL's distributed electrical systems laboratory said that a smaller scale pod could verify if it works or not. Results will be used to improve the design and make it better if it fails. Several projects are underway in many places racing to produce the first working model.

Swiss Firm plans for the HyperLoop as others are developing the technology create a new mode of transport, which is fast and speedier than riding a plane but has fewer carbon emissions is something to watch out for in innovations of traveling.